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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS E3RR0xDg. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Psychosocial characteristics may be associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). Whether hostility predicts recurrent coronary events is unknown. A total of 792 women in the Heart and Estrogen/progestin Replacement Study (HERS) were evaluated prospectively to determine the role of hostility as a risk factor for secondary CHD events (nonfatal myocardial infarction and CHD death). The mean age of study participants was 67 years, and the average length of follow-up was 4.1 years. The study was conducted between 1993 and 1998, and all study sites were in the United States. High Cook-Medley hostility scores were associated with greater body mass index (p=0.01) and higher levels of serum triglycerides (p=0.05), and they were inversely associated with high density lipoprotein cholesterol (p=0.04), self-rated general health (p
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